Performance
Tino Sehgal Dances Across the Line Between Art and Life
Sehgal’s latest work will likely go down as one of the 21st century’s most interesting hybrids between contemporary art and dance.
Tino Sehgal
Film
Dancing Rodin’s Sensual Poses
PARIS — Dance that pushes sensual and temporal boundaries and sculpture that pushes formal boundaries share a solid connection while simultaneously remaining, in many respects, in distinct opposition.
Art
Decoding Public Art in City Hall Park
Between the four speakers of Chris Watson's "Ring Angels," the fluttering of a thousand wings fills a corner of City Hall Park.
Art
Cycling Through Tino Sehgal’s “Constructed Situations" in Marrakesh
MARRAKESH — As the afternoon sun radiated onto Jemaa el-Fna square in the old medina quarter of the city, nine bodies emerged before me on the ground, beatboxing and gyrating, surrounded by curious onlookers.
Art
Plunging into the Darkness with Tino Sehgal
BERLIN — With a quiet and contemplative beginning, Sehgal sets up museumgoers for an unanticipated fall into the very heart of spectacles of intimacy.
Art
Surgery as Performance Art: A Restoration Comedy
I’m in a surgical center in Scottsdale, Arizona, being treated as if I were an esteemed guest at a Marriot. Better. A series of very nice people are being serially very nice to me, asking me questions, checking-in with how I feel, giving appropriate boosts.
Art
Philippe Parreno, Relational Puppetmaster
PARIS — My long encounter with Philippe Parreno’s vast but fey exposition Anywhere, Anywhere, Out Of The World was anything but otherworldly.
News
French Video and Installation Artist Laure Prouvost Wins Turner Prize
French video and installation artist Laure Prouvost has been announced as the winner of the Tate's Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK.
Art
Booze, Food, Balloon Dogs, and Performance at Frieze New York
Frieze New York is an undeniably nice fair. Even if you generally hate art fairs, or sympathize with the union workers, or a devotee of the Armory Show, you have to admit that Frieze does it right: the spacious, light-filled tent, the excellent food options, the weekend-getaway feel as you board the
News
Who Do You Think Should Win the 2013 Turner Prize?
We round up the Turner Prize shortlist (Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost, and David Shrigley) and turn it over to you. Who do you think should win?
Opinion
Tino Sehgal Gets Turbine Hall Commission, But Will We See it?
The Tate Modern just announced its selection for the 2012 Turbine Hall commission, and the winner is none other than your favorite relational aesthetics artist and mine, Mr. Tino Sehgal. But with Sehgal's outlawing of any photo documentation of his works, will we actually get to see the piece?
Art
WTF is... Relational Aesthetics?
The standard cliché summary of modern (and contemporary) art is that now, anything is art. Jackson Pollock threw paint around. Duchamp strung up a shovel, upended a bike wheel into a stool, put a urinal on a pedestal and called the resulting three “sculptures” art of the highest order. After so long